Frank Ocean Tweets About Alleged Faceoff with Chris Brown

Singer-songwriter Frank Ocean, who is nominated for six Grammy awards including album of the year for “Channel Orange,” might not be able to perform at his best at the Feb. 10th event after an alleged face-off with singer-dancer Chris Brown. According to TMZ, the two men and their entourages had some sort of confrontation at a Los Angeles studio on Sunday night. Representatives for Ocean and Brown did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But Ocean seemed back up elements of the report in two tweets. In one of them Ocean said“got jumped by chris and a couple guys. lol. i only wish everest was there.” (Everest is his Bernese mountain dog, a particularly large breed of canine.) So why is this even news? Because of what Ocean tweeted next: “cut my finger now I can’t play w two hands at the grammys.” It’s unclear what type of performance Ocean plans to make at the Grammys, since the singer is not listed on the Grammy website as an official performer. For his part, Brown posted on his Instagram account on Monday morning “Working on my album. Not working on negativity. Focus on feeding ya family. Bulls— will forever be in the shadows.” [UPDATE: Chris Brown investigated for battery]

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